Tag: The Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Climate Corner: Failed promises of the natural gas industry

Jul 30, 2022 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com Residents of the Mid-Ohio Valley have been presented with several myths about the benefits of the natural gas industry. These myths have resulted in unfulfilled promises that have left the Valley and… Read More

Climate Corner: Just itching to address climate change

Jul 16, 2022 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com “Late at night while you’re sleeping, poison ivy comes a-creeping…” — Lieber and Stoller 1959 *** Unless you are as old as I am, you might not recognize the song remnant… Read More

EPA ruling far from ‘pro-life’

Letters to the editor  Jul 9, 2022 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com On June 24, America’s far right Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision establishing the constitutionality of abortion in the United States. But what… Read More

Climate Corner: Few options after unforgivable ruling

Jul 9, 2022 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com Six unelected authoritarian despots on the U.S. Supreme Court have decided in the case West Virginia v. EPA that the federal administrative body tasked with protection of public health and the environment… Read More

Climate Corner: An eco-friendly Fourth of July

Jul 2, 2022 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com With picnics, parades and fireworks, July Fourth celebrations are often a highlight of the summer. But these celebrations and the activities associated with them can be less than ideal for the planet…. Read More

Climate Corner: Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District anything but a conservancy

Jun 25, 2022 Randi Pokladnik editorial@newsandsentinel.com The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District includes parts or the entirety of 27 Ohio counties. All of these counties have seen some impact from oil and gas development. However, the counties of Carroll,… Read More

Climate Corner: Climate change urgency that creates jobs

Jun 11, 2022 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com Many thanks to Sen. Joe Manchin for his efforts at bipartisan solutions on climate legislation. Up to this point these efforts have not been successful, yet the importance of addressing climate change… Read More

Climate Corner: Foote predicted climate change 165 years ago

May 28, 2022 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com Scientists understood the physics of climate change in the 1800s — thanks to a woman named Eunice Newton Foote. Foote (1819-1888), an American scientist (and distant relative of Sir Isaac Newton),… Read More

Climate Corner: No time to waste

May 21, 2022 Eric Engle editorial@newsandsentinel.com The old cliche goes that, when you’re in a hole and trying to get out, you first stop digging. That is the opposite of what we’re doing when it comes to fossil… Read More

Climate Corner: Earth Day should be every day

May 14, 2022 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com One of the first pictures taken of the Earth from the Moon was snapped by astronaut William Anders on Christmas Eve 1968. Anders, as well as astronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman,… Read More